| 词条 | Barakoma Airfield |
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|name=Barakoma Airfield |partof = |location=Barakoma, Vella Lavella |coordinates={{Coord|07|54|46.8|S|156|42|21.6|E}} |image=Vella Lavella airfield Dec 1943.jpg |image_size=300px |caption=Barakoma Airfield December 1943 |type=Military Airfield |code= |built=1943 |builder=Seebees |materials=Coral |height= |used= 1943-4 |demolished= |condition=abandoned |ownership= |controlledby=United States Marine Corps |garrison= |commanders= |occupants= |battles=Bougainville Campaign Operation Cartwheel |events= }} Barakoma Airfield is a former World War II airfield on Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands archipelago. HistoryWorld War IIThe U.S. 35th Infantry Regiment landed on Vella Lavella on 15 August 1943 as part of the Solomon Islands campaign. The 58th Naval Construction Battalions landed with the Army and began building support facilities despite frequent Japanese air attacks. In August 1943 the Seebees surveyed and cleared a site for an airfield and began building a coral-surfaced {{convert|4000|ft}} by {{convert|200|ft}} fighter runway. Airfield facilities such as a signal tower, operations room, aviation-gasoline tanks, and camp for operating personnel, were completed in September and the first landing was made on 24 September. By November 1943 an aviation-gasoline tank farm of six 1,000-barrel tanks, with a sea-loading line was operational.[1] US Navy units based at Barakoma included:
USMC units based at Barakoma included:
On 15 June 1944 the airfield was abandoned and all salvageable materials were dismantled and removed by 12 July 1944.[1]{{rp|267}} PostwarThe airfield is overgrown with vegetation. See also
References1. ^1 {{Cite book|last=|first= |title=Building the Navy's Bases in World War II History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps 1940-1946| publisher=US Government Printing Office| year=1947| isbn=|page=266}} External links 4 : Pacific theatre of World War II|United States Naval Air Stations|Closed installations of the United States Navy|Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II |
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